The Day of
Atonement was the holiest day of the year for Israel; the only day God would
come to the Tabernacle/Temple, and in the Holy of Holies, on the mercy seat,
forgive the sins of Israel; make them holy for 1 more year. Jesus would be the
only one born of a woman who would be physically holy, what other day would He
be born except on the holiest day of the year; symbolizing He was holy, without
any sin.

*and the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your
brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the
mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the
mercy seat.Lev 16:2 ESV+

*“Now on the tenth day of this seventh
month is the Day of Atonement.
It shall be for you a time of holy
convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering
to the Lord. And you shall
not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. Lev 23: 26-27 ESV+

Jesus was born on
the Day of Atonement, the day which was used to atone for the sins of Israel;
thus symbolizing He would replace the need for His Father to come to the mercy
seat on this day and forgive our sins through animal sacrifices. Jesus was born
on this day to symbolize that His sacrificial blood shed on the cross would
atone for sins of the world, would spiritually make believers perfectly holy.
So our bodies can become the temple of our God; our hearts symbolized by the
mercy seat, now become the place where Jesus can permanently live within us. Soul and Spirit 3a
mercy seat symbolizes our heart

*Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiestby the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which
He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, Heb 10:19-20
NKJV+

*because by one sacrifice he has made perfect foreverthose who are being made holy.Heb 10:14 NIV+

*that Christ
may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded
in love, Eph 3:17-19 NKJV+

Until Jesus came
to atone for our sins, the High Priest (at this
time Aaron) would use 2
goats as a sin offering for Israel. The High Priest would cast lots over them,
to determine which goat would be chosen for the Lord, and be sacrificed as the
sin offering for the sins of Israel this year. And which goat would be chosen
to be sent to azazel.

*"He shall take from the congregation of
the sons of Israel two male goatsfor a sin offering and one ram for a
burnt offering. Lev 16:5 NASB+

*Then he
shall take the two goats and set them before the Lordat the entrance of the tent of meeting. And Aaron shall cast lotsover the two goats, one lot for the Lordand the other lot for Azazel. Lev 16:8 ESV+

*And Aaron
shall present the goat on which
the lot fell for the Lord
and use it as a sin offering, Lev 16:9 ESV+

Jesus was
symbolized as the second goat (scapegoat or goat of
removal), the Messiah (Christ)
who would be born on this day to save us. Jesus was presented alive to His
Father who on this day came down to the mercy seat, to forgive the sins of Israel.
Jesus was sent out of Mary’s womb on this day to have the sins of the world
placed upon Him; when He was hung upon the cross on Passover Day Nisan 14,
30AD. So Jesus could physically die, and His spiritual being (human soul and spirit)could
carrythe sins of the world to azazel; who lived in the deepest
part of the Abyss. Here Jesus would deposit all the sins (iniquities) He
carried in the most solitary landwhich will ever exist.azazel:
angels who became demons, see 1a. below

*but the goat
on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive before
the Lord
to make atonement over it, that it
may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel. Lev 16:10 ESV+

*Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head
of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of
the children of Israel, and all theirtransgressions, concerning all
their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it
away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man. Lev 16:21 NKJV+

*"The goat shall bearon itself
all their iniquitiesto a solitary
land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness. Lev 16:22 NASB+

1a. Peter defines azazel; spirits(angels now demons)whodisobeyed God, are chained in the Abyss.

Peter defines azazel
as the demons who live in the Abyss; more specifically the spirits (angels now demons)
who disobeyed God in the time of Noah. These (angels now
demons) took over a human
men’s bodies, married women, and reproduced children who became giants;
completely disrupting our God’s plan of creation.

*For if God did not spare angels when they
sinned, but cast them into hell [Tartarus] and committed them to chains of gloomy darknessto be kept until the judgment; 2Pe 2:4 ESV*

*Jesus asked him, saying, "What is your
name?" And he said, "Legion," because many demons had entered him. And they begged Him that He
would not command them to go out
into the abyss. Lk 8:30-31 NKJV+

Tartarus is used only once
in the Bible, we differ with NASB+ who defines it as Hell. We believe Tartarus
refers to the deepest part of the Abyss where the demons above who were once
angels are now chained or imprisoned. Hell is the Lake of Fire, the second
death, where all the demonic beings in the Abyss, and the human spiritual
beings in Hades which is above the Abyss, will be thrown to live forever at the
White Throne Judgment. We believe the NASB+ and NKJV+ are correct in all of
their other uses of Hades, the Abyss (bottomless pit) and Hell; while other
translations are not.

*Then Death
and Hadeswere cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.Rev 20:14 NKJV+ Hades; Abyss; Hell

Peter continues
after Christ had been put to death in the flesh; His spiritual being (human soul and spirit)would
go to azazel, the prison
where these demons are kept in the Abyss. There Jesus would proclaim His
victory over satan, these
demons, and death for all believers.

*For Christ
also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; in
which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, who
once were disobedient, when the
patience of God kept waiting in the days
of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight
persons, were brought safely through the
water 1Pe 3:18-20 NASB+

Paul confirms
Jesus went into the Abyss on Passover Day Nisan 14, 30AD.

*But the righteousness based on faith says,
“Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will
ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down) or “ ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that
is, to bring Christ upfrom the dead). Ro 10:7 ESV+

The man who lets
the scapegoat go to azazel,
symbolized the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate; who ordered Jesus to be
crucified, physically killed, so His spiritual being could go to azazel, the demons in the Abyss. Before Pilate crucified
Jesus he washed his hands to signify he was innocent of Jesus’s blood; of killing
an innocent man. Israel then took responsibility upon themselves, their
children for spilling the blood of Jesus, taking His physical life. This is why
the man who led the scapegoat had to symbolically remove this great sin Israel
would commit; by washing his clothes, then His entire body in water, before
coming back to camp.

*And he
who lets the goat go to Azazel shall wash his
clothes and bathe his body in water,
and afterward he may come into the camp.
Lev 16:26 ESV+

*So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing,
but rather that a riot was beginning, he took
water and washed his hands
before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.” And all
the people answered, “His blood be on us
and on our children!” Matt 27:24-25 ESV+

Passover Day below
will make this clearer; when the interactions of the Scapegoat and Passover
Lamb on Passover Day are put in context.

Others believe azazel traditionally means a
scapegoat, others a mountain in Israel; yet neither changes what Jesus
symbolically did as the scapegoat.

If the traditional word
scapegoat (removal goat) is used; it does not change the meaning of what Jesus
will do, though it is a little less descriptive.

If Azazel refers to a
mountain in Israel; it is referring to the scapegoat being led by a man to the
top of a mountain (azazel),
on the Day of Atonement. Here the man would kill the scapegoat, then push the
dead scapegoat down from the top of this mountain, to descend to the ground
below. Symbolizing Jesus after He was crucified (killed when our sins were laid
on Him); would descend into Hades, then descend into
the Abyss to deposit the world’s sins there.

God sent Moses to
free Israel from over 400 years of Egyptian slavery, by bringing plagues
against Egypt. God’s last plague of sending the angel of death to kill the
first born male of both man and beast living in Egypt would convince Pharaoh,
the ruler of Egypt, to let Israel go. Israel was saved from this plague by
which killing a lamb, and putting their blood around the door frames of their
houses in the late afternoon. For the angel would then pass over any house with blood around its door, without killing the
firstborns living there. This foreshadowed Jesus as the sacrificial lamb, His
blood on the cross saving all believers from their sins, from going to Hades.

*For I will pass through the land of Egypt
on that night, and will strikeall the firstbornin the land of
Egypt, both man and beast; and
against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. Now the blood shall
be a sign for you on the houses where you are.
And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague
shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.Ex
12:12-13 NKJV+

God required
Israel to annually celebrate Passover Day on Nisan 14; when in the afternoon
they were to slaughter a Passover Lamb, like Israel did when they were freed
from Egypt. Only this time they were to pour the blood of the lambs at the
altar of the Tabernacle (then the Temple when it
was built), as a
ceremonial work to forgive their sins, make them righteous. The Passover Lamb
symbolized the Messiah who would come to save them; symbolizedJesus as the Passover Lamb who would
be sacrificed to redeem us from our sins.

*“These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, the holy convocations, which
you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord’s
Passover.Lev 23:4-5 ESV+

On Passover Day
either an unblemished year old lamb from a sheep, or an unblemished lamb (kid)
from a goat was acceptable as a sacrifice for sin; showing God would use both
of these animals to symbolize Jesus on this day. Until Jesus would come to shed
His blood on the cross, forever replacing the need of any other sacrifice for
sin.

*'Your lamb[or kid]shall be an unblemished male
a year old; you may take itfrom the sheep or from the goats.
Ex 12:5 NASB+

As the Passover Lamb: Jesus
completely surrendered His will to His Father at Gethsemane, and allowed
Himself to be arrested; becoming our Passover Lamb. Sheep are passive, even
when they face slaughter; symbolic of how Jesus was led away like a sheep going
to the slaughter, knowing He would be tortured, and then crucified. Yet He was
silent and did not complain.

*Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and
prayed that if possible the hour might
pass from him. "Abba, Father," he said, "everything
is possible for you. Take this cup from
me. Yet not what I will, but what
you will." Mk 14:35-36 NIV+

*He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet
He opened not His mouth; He was led as a
lamb to the slaughter, Andas a sheepbefore its shearers is silent, So He
opened not His mouth. Isa 53:7 NKJV+

Jesus gave His life for our sins, on Passover
Day. No one would ever have the power to kill Jesus, for His Father would
protect Him.

*Do you
think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more
than twelve legions of angels? Matt 26:53 ESV+

*"For this reason the Father loves
Me, because
I lay down My life so that I may take it again. "No one has taken it away from Me, but I
lay it down on My own initiative. I
have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This
commandment I received from My Father." Jn 10:17-18 NASB+

Jesus was brutally
tortured, whipped, and then crucified; which was one of the most painful and
humiliating deaths one would have to endure. He was hung upon a wooden cross
protruding from the ground, by having nails driven through His wrists and feet;
until He would suffocate and physically die.

*But He was wounded for our transgressions, He wasbruised for our iniquities; Thechastisement for
our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are
healed.Isa 53:5 NKJV+

*Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him
and cause him to suffer, and though
the Lord
makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his
days, and the will of the Lord
will prosper in his hand. Isa 53:10 NIV+

As the Scapegoat had the sins of Israel laid on him; when
Jesus was hanging on the cross His Father laid the sins of the world upon Him;
which made His physical body sinful, no longer holy. Because Jesus was now
sinful, He was separated from His Father; forsaken by the sin He carried.

*The goat
shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he
shall release the goat in the wilderness. Lev 16:22
NKJV+

*All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him. Isa 53:6 NASB+

As the Passover lamb:Our sins killed Jesus; mine, the sins of
all believers. For only sin can cause physical death, and Jesus had no sin as
He was put on the cross. Only when believers’ sins were laid upon Him; did Jesus
become sinful, which allowed Him to die on the cross. Jesus shed His blood to
atone for our sins; replacing the Passover Lamb He symbolized.

*Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin,
and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned--Ro 5:12 NKJV+

*For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission
of sins. Matt 26:28 NKJV+

*even as the Son of Mancame not to
be served but to serve, and to give his
life as a ransom for many.”Matt 20:27-28 ESV+

When He said “It
is finished” upon the cross, He was referring to His physical body dying; His
physical life was over. Jesus’ human spiritual being was now released out of
His sinful physical body, which had been cursed by God. His spiritual being
carried our sins, carried God’s curse, carrying, which made His spiritual being
sinful also. Jesus spiritual being went to Hades, where all humans’ spiritual
beings will go if they are not holy; do not have the Holy Spirit living within
them.

*He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For
the transgressions of My people He was
stricken. And they made His grave with the wicked-- But with the rich
at His death, Because He had done no violence, Norwas
any deceit in His mouth. Isa 53:8-9 NKJV+

*“And if a man has committed a crime
punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a
tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury
him the same day, for a hanged man is
cursed by God. Dt 21:21-23 ESV+

*Clean out
the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been
sacrificed. 1Co 5:7 NASB+

Just as the
Passover Lamb had to be roasted in fire; Jesus spiritual being would have to
suffer the torment in Hades, like the rich man did.

*Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with
water, but roasted in fire--its head with its legs and its entrails.
Ex 12:9 NKJV+

*"Now the poor man died and was carried
away by the angels to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. "In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far
away and Lazarus in his bosom. "And he cried out and said, 'Father Abraham,
have mercy on me, and send Lazarus
so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool
off my tongue, for I am in agonyin this flame.Lk 16:22-24 NASB+

Jesus human
spiritual being would remain in Hades until His Father accepted His sacrifice
for the sins of the world.

*he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the
resurrection of the Christ, that His
soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. Acts 2:31 NKJV+

*After the suffering
of his soul, he will see the light [of life] and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities. Isa 53:11 NIV+

As the Scapegoat, who was now sent to Azazel in the Abyss; to
deposit the sins of the world. Where He would also
proclaim His victory over satan,
over death to believers; to all the demons present there.

*For Christ
also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; in
which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, who
once were disobedient, when the
patience of God kept waiting in the days
of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight
persons, were brought safely through the
water 1Pe 3:18-20 NASB+

*But the righteousness based on faith says,
“Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will
ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down) or

As the Passover lamb Jesus spiritual being ascended into
Heaven; bringing behind Him all the spiritual beings of those who had
physically died following God in the Old Covenant; and were in Abraham’s Bosom.

*Therefore it says, "When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to
men." (What does "he
ascended" meanexcept that he
also descended to the lower, earthly
regions? He who descended
is the very one who ascended higher
than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) Eph 4:8-10 NIV+

All blessing
and honor would be first for the Jews, then the Gentiles; here the Jewish
believers would be the first to spiritually come into the Kingdom of God

*For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant,
that those who are called may receive the promised eternal
inheritance--now that he has died
as a ransom to set them free from the sins
committed under the first covenant. Heb 9:5 NIV+

*but glory, honor and peace for
everyone who does good: first for
the Jew, then for the Gentile. Ro
2:10 NIV+

On Passover
Day, after Jesus’ spiritual being had ascended into Heaven with those in Abraham’s
Bosom; He would welcome to Paradise the spiritual being of the thief/criminal
who had been crucified next to Him. For the thief had physically died after
Jesus sacrifice had been accepted by His Father; and Jesus had promised to take
the thief to Paradise this very same day, before it would end at sundown (around 6 PM Jewish time). The thief might have been the first to directly come to
Heaven in the New Covenant of Christ’s grace upon on the cross.

*Then he
said to Jesus, "Lord, remember
me when You come into Your kingdom." And Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me
in Paradise." Lk 23:42-45 NKJV+

The thief asked Jesus to
remember Him in His Kingdom; Jesus’ Kingdom was not Abraham’s Bosom, but His
Father’s Kingdom in Heaven, Paradise, where Jesus would sit at the right hand
of His Father. Jesus died around 3 PM, there would only be 2-3 hours left
before Passover Day ended at sundown (around 6 PM); then He would be in Heaven
greeting the thief. This means Jesus could not have suffered in Hades more than
3 hours in our time. Remembering there is no time in the eternal world; in
either Heaven or Hades, a day is like a 1,000 years (2Pe 3:8); making our hour
over 40 years. So we really do not know how long Jesus had to suffer in Hades;
until His Father accepted His sacrifice for our sins.

After Jesus atoning
sacrifice had been accepted by His Father, He did not need to be resurrected
from being physically dead to be able to forgive sins. The blood Jesus shed on
the cross forgives sins; made all spiritual beings in Abraham Bosom, the
spiritual being of the thief/criminal on the cross, and all believers’
spiritual beings; holy, so they can come into Heaven. Then on Firstfruits below; when Jesus arose from being physically dead
with a glorified body; we have the assurance that we also will be given a
glorified body when Jesus returns for us.

*In
Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace Eph 1:7 NKJV+

Firstfruits was the 1st day (Sun) after the 1st
regular Sabbath (Sat); after the 1st special Sabbath of Feast Unleavened
Bread; which was held on Nisan 15.

In the morning of Firstfruits; the first sheaf of grain from believers’
fields was to be cut, then given to the priests at the Temple in Jerusalem to
present to the Lord. This was the firstfruits of the
crop which would later be harvested.

*"Speak to the children of Israel, and
say to them: 'When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its
harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf
of the firstfruitsof your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted on your
behalf; on the day after the Sabbath
the priest shall wave it. Lev 23:10-11 NKJV+

He was
presented to our Father on Sunday the Day of First fruits. Jesus was the first
fruits of our Father's plan of salvation; the first to be resurrected from
being physically dead, and given a glorified body. 40 days later Jesus would be
the first to have His glorified physical body taken into Heaven on Ascension
Day. Just as all believers will the crop which will later be harvested and be
given a holy, eternal, glorified body when Jesus returns.

*But now Christ
has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. 1Co 15:20 NASB+

*But each
in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then
at his comingthose who belong to
Christ. 1Co 15:23 ESV+

Remain being symbolized as
the Passover lamb;
when Jesus ascended 40 days later into Heaven He will always be known as the
Passover Lamb who shed His blood to save us. Who was worthy to open the seals;
as the Lamb who will defeat the antichrist to rule over earth for 1,000 years.

*saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lambwho was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!” Rev 5:12 ESV+

*They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he
is Lord of lords and King of kings,
and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.” Rev 17:14 ESV+

Be the Passover Lamb
foreverafter our Father has destroyed satan for the last time (Rev 20:9-10),
and made a new heaven and earth (Rev 21:10). Jesus will be the Lamb who sits on the
throne with His Father; the Lamb who provides light for Jerusalem with the
glory of God.

*And the city
has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory
of God gives it light, and its lamp
is the Lamb. Rev 21:23
ESV+

*No longer will there be anything accursed,
but the throne of God and of the Lamb
will be in it, and his servants will worship him. Rev 22:3 ESV+